OpenAI GPT-5 Mini: API pricing, providers and specs
OpenAI GPT-5 Mini is a text model by OpenAI. 26 providers serve it, from $1.60 to $2.20 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
A newer version is out: OpenAI GPT-5.4 Mini · released Mar 17, 2026
How OpenAI GPT-5 Mini compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.60 /1M against a median of $1.10; 59% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 400K-token context window is larger than 62% of them (median 262K), about 600 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #50 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 26 providers serve it; 93% of comparable models have fewer.
OpenAI GPT-5 Mini prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIMart | $0.20/1M | $1.60/1M | — | — |
 CometAPI | $0.20/1M | $1.60/1M | $0.02/1M | — |
 Poe | $0.227/1M | $1.82/1M | $0.023/1M | 400K |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.237/1M | $1.90/1M | $0.024/1M | — |
| OpenAIOfficial | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
 Ofox | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.03/1M | 256K |
 FastRouter | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
 DigitalOcean | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
 OrcaRouter | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
 NEAR AI Cloud | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
 Helicone | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
 Prime Inference | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | — | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
 Impossibl | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
| Replicate | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | — | — |
 APIYI | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
| ZenMux | $0.25/1M | $2/1M | $0.025/1M | 400K |
 Requesty | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | 200K |
 Azure | $0.25/1M | From$2/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
 Cortecs | $0.28/1M | $2.20/1M | $0.056/1M | — |
- APIMart$1.60
- CometAPI$1.60
- Poe$1.82
- Jiekou.AI$1.90
- Ofox$2
- FastRouter$2
- DigitalOcean$2
- OrcaRouter$2
- NEAR AI Cloud$2
- Prime Inference$2
- AI/ML API$2
- Impossibl$2
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- OpenAI
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 400K≈ 600 pages of text
- Max output
- 128K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Aug 7, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1373Text
Alternatives to OpenAI GPT-5 Mini
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI GPT-5 Minithis model | $1.60/1M | 400K | 1373 | 26 |
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| Grok 4.7 | $4.80/1M | 500K | 1637 | 28 |
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 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
 Muse Spark 1.3 | $4.25/1M | 1.05M | 1657 | 11 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
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OpenAI GPT-5 Mini FAQ
APIMart, at $1.60 /1M. 26 providers serve OpenAI GPT-5 Mini; the table above lists every one with its price.
OpenAI GPT-5 Mini reads up to 400K tokens per request and writes up to 128K.
We have not found OpenAI GPT-5 Mini's weights published by its maker.
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